Michelle Teasdale (she/they) MA, is a 500+hr yoga teacher, with advanced training through The Shala in London, and certification through YogaLondon. She is a 600hr Ayurvedic Health Counsellor and Wellness Coach with The Shakti School. She is a qualified Facilitator of Feeding Your Demons and the Mandala Method through Tara Mandala. She is also a qualified Sound Bath practitioner through @bastsoundtherapy, and has undertaken the Pause Place Practitioner Training,
A former NHS clinical nurse specialist in women's health with a Master's degree in Buddhist Studies, she now runs Opting Out, a space on Substack for radical rest and reflection, where she shares restorative and yin yoga, nidra, reflections and a slow reading group.
She is currently guiding 20 people through her signature Wintering Well journey, a 5 month online group program featuring sound healing, yin, slow flow and restorative yoga, Ayurveda, reading reflections and nature connection.
All of her offerings are currently online and by donation.
She is a queer, lay-ordained Vajrayana Buddhist based in Brighton, UK. She home educates her son and works part-time so that she can enjoy a slower, more spacious way of living. She enjoys reading literary fiction, live music and walks by the sea.
She is passionate about making wellness accessible to those who really need it, and works through an anti-capitalist, trauma-informed, queer-friendly, intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist lens. 